case ended 3 years ago

Csa_Survivor

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Hi jarhead, what in Gods name is that supposed to mean, you say they told you that you would get a full refund but it may only be for 3 or 4 months?????, they really do talk nonsense!
Your situation sounds very similar to mine as you will know if you have glanced over my previous posts, the only main difference being that they owe you a lot more by the look of things.
As far as my situation was concerned the system quite happily let me carry on paying for 2 full years after my liability had ended. I obviously cannot promise you anything but my next step was to make clear to them that I now had nothing to lose anymore as they no longer had a hold over me, and that I would pursue them down every avenue open to me such as MP, newspapers or whatever until I received the money that lets face it, they had stolen from me, or that all those avenues were completely exhausted!
For the record, as I recall, I received a few thousand pounds refunded into my account in around 3 months I believe it was from the day I rang CSA to check on the status of Child Benefit still being paid or not to the ex ( it took them a few minutes in the same phone call to check this!!!), to the day I eventually got all my money back.
Please do not let them fob you off, they actually had the damn cheek to suggest to me that if they considered that the child had benefitted from the extra money then I may not receive a refund! WHAT!, they were telling me on one hand that I no longer had a liability to pay for the last two years but then trying to tell me I may not have received my money back, I dont think so, this fired me up even more and I was very clear that I was not going to go away!
Now, don't get me wrong on this, I am not a fool and I am sure that they probably did not give a jot about my protests to them over the phone, and would probably quite happily have left me ranting into space if they had wanted to. My belief, and that's all it is, is that there is an awful lot of this going on if you read these forums and I think someone somewhere has messed up big time by allowing this situation to slip through the net, it really is disgusting. Keep on at them, ring them at the very least once a week to check on the progression of your refund and see how it goes. Good Luck.
PS, they actually also had to ask me if I wanted my money back, seriously, can you believe it. To justify the question they will try to send you on a guilt trip by suggesting, as you have already touched on, that they would now have to ask the ex to in effect repay all the money that she had received ( even though it had been fraudulently).

jarhead66

Thanks for your reply CSA survivor.. I did phone the CSA last Monday and spoke to a female who told me that the fiance team will be in contact with me in about 6 weeks, but I will take your advice and phone them once a week, she also said that it was alot of money to come out of the public purse, and any refund might depend on the PWC ability to repay!!! I can't understand why they are not taking my ex to court!! After all she has defrauded a govement dept can I push for this?
How can the CSA use the pathetic excuse that the child will of benefited from my overpayment.. when she went out and bought a horse after the CSA went benefit disregard in 2010, the only thing that the overpayments went on was horses, the local pub and booze busters!!! Why Don't the CSA get onto booze busters and ask them for the money back!! Lol,
I do have all my payslips from October 2011 showing my DEO for the CSA, also I did get £160 refund from overpayment in August for paying too much in 2013, the woman that I spoke to did say that my account was up to date so I should get a full refund, unless the fiance dept find any arrears, she also advised me to stick to my guns!!! What ever that means??

jarhead66

Well here is an update!!! I contacted the CSA yesterday for an update on my over payments (£12400 aprox), as its been about 5 weeks since they contacted me informing me that my case is now closed as from 14th October 2011.
I was told that the finance dept would have to check my accounts to see if I had under payed them since my case had begun, which i find rather strange as I was refunded £167 in september as they had checked everything and showed an over payment for £167. As i pay by DEO from my wages how can their be any arrears, i think that the CSA are trying to get out of paying me all my over payments. If they had already done a full accounts check in August then they must know that their is no arrears!!
The CSA worker also told me that it would take them well into the new year as they had a back log, well they only gave me a certain time to send off my wage slips when I was reassessed so why can't they use the same time scale, one more thing my Ex won't be getting taken to court for fraud against the CSA why is this!!!

Cally_Smart

Thats what we found ,one rule for them another for the nrp! You could'nt make it up could you ? Can Nacsa do anything for you ?